I believe it is a mistake to isolate arms control from other areas of policy.

Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something. The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.

We believe that peace is at hand.

Competing pressures tempt one to believe that an issue deferred is a problem avoided; more often it is a crisis invited.

An expert is someone who articulates the needs of those in power.

When I became security advisor, I became familiar with the so-called SIOP war plans, I called in Secretary McNamara and asked him what they were hiding from me, because I couldn't believe that the National policy would foresee such a level of destructiveness.

You're 18 points down [in the polls]... You might as well do what's right.